Word Meanings - STARTINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically. Shak.

Related words: (words related to STARTINGLY)

• SUDDEN
  soudain, L. subitaneus, fr. subitus sudden, that has come unexpectedly, p.p. of subire to come on, to steal upon; sub under, 1. Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation;
• SUDDENTY
  Suddenness; a sudden. On a suddenty, on a sudden. Sir W. Scott.